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Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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August 1866, Ping Yang river, Corea, ...Thomas Murphy, and these three then sprang at the natives. A desperate hand-to-handfight ensued. The struggle had been observed from the fort and a detachment of marines hurried to the rescue. When they arrived they found both Allen and Murphy dead, and Lukes, with eighteen sword and spear wounds, lying unconscious on the body of his lieutenant. The man lay for thirty-nine days unconscious in the Colorados sick-bay, and as a result of the terrible hacking he had gone through became an invalid for life. The Medal of Honor was the reward for his unswerving devotion. The following men also received the Medal in this engagement: Frederick Franklin, quartermaster; Alexander McKenzie, boatswains mate; Cyrus Hayden,carpenter; Charles Brown, corporal of marines; Samuel F. Rogers, quartermaster; William Troy, seaman; Michael Owens, marine; John Coleman, marine, of the Colorado. H. P. Grace, chief quartermaster; John Andrews, seaman; James Dougherty, marine, and Michael McNamara, marine, of the Benicia.
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A DESPERATE HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT TOOK PLACE. 94- IN AN ARCTIC STORM Tn 1873, the United States steamer Tigress was sent to the far North in search of^ the exploring ship Polaris, and to rescue those of her officers and men who were still alive. She was driven about by the wind and current in the great fields of ice and thousands of icebergs in Baffins Bay until finally, in September she was ableto force her way through Cumberland Gulf, where she remained for two weeks inorder to repair the damage done while being buffeted about in the ice. When these repairs had been made. Commander Greer brought her out, but before she had fairly fought her way out to the pack ice of the stream, a fresh north-easter blew up. Every effort was made to get her out of the pack before the gale increased in fury, for to be caught in the pack in a heavy gale meant rough usage,with much damage to the ship. Her bluff nose plowed its way into the ice until shewas fast. Then she would back off a sufficient distance,

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